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BY-LAWS OF MILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ADOPTED 

21 JANUARY, 1905, AMENDED 6 JUNE, 1905, 

AND 4 JUNE, 1913. 

Article I. Name. 
This organization shall be called Milton Historical Society. 

Article II. Object. 
The corporation is constituted for the purpose of the study of the 
history of the Town of Milton, Massachusetts, its societies, organiza- 
tions, families, individuals and events, the collection and preservation 
of articles of historic value, the establishment and maintenance of an 
historical library, and the publication from time to time of such 
information relating to the same as shall be deemed expedient. 

Article III. Officers. 

There shall be a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Recording 
Secretary who shall be sworn, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer 
and a Librarian, who shall severally perform the usual duties of their 
respective offices, and who together shall constitute a Board of Direc- 
tors having the general management of the business of the Society in all 
ways not conflicting with these by-laws or the laws of the Common- 
wealth. These officers shall be elected by ballot annually at the 
regular June meeting, as hereinafter provided, and shall hold office 
until their successors are chosen and qualified. 

Meetings of the Board of Directors may be called upon two days" 
notice. 

Article IV. Vacancies. 
Vacancies in any office or in the Board of Directors, by reason of 
death, resignation or inability to act, may be filled by a majority vote 
of the remaining Directors although they are less than a quorum, and 
the officers and Directors so elected shall hold office until the next 
annual meeting and until others are chosen and qualified in their 
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Article V. Members. 

Members shall be of two classes, regular and honorary. 

Regular members only shall be entitled to hold office or to vote at 
the meetings of the Society. 

Honorary members shall have no vote, and shall be exempt from 
dues and assessments. 

New members may be elected by a two-thirds vote of those 
present and voting at any regular meeting of the Society, or at any 
special meeting called for the purpose, and shall become members 
upon payment within four months of dues for the year in which they 
were elected. 

Article VI. Dues. 

The annual dues shall be one dollar, payable in advance at the 
regular June meeting, or in case of newly elected members, as soon as 
they receive notice of their election. A member elected at the February 
meeting and duly qualified, shall not be called upon for further dues 
until the date of the annual meeting sixteen months from the time of 
his election. Any one who is in default for his annual dues for two 
whole years shall thereupon cease to be a member; but he maybe 
reinstated by the Board of Directors on payment of all his then exist- 
ing dues. 

The Board of Directors may in their discretion, by a unanimous 
vote, abate the dues of any member who has done special service for 

the Society. 

Regular members may become life members upon payment of 
twenty-five dollars, and shall thereafter be exempt from all further 
dues and assessments. 

Article VII. Meetings of the Society. 
The annual meeting shall be held on the first Wednesday in June. 
Regular meetings shall be held on the first Wednesdays of October and 
February ; but the Board of Directors may by vote alter the day of 
any regular meeting. Special meetings may be called at any time by 
the President, by the Board of Directors, or by ten members of the 

Society. 

Notice of all meetings shall be given by the Recording Secretary, 
by mailing the same to each member of the Society at his address as it 
appears on the books of the Society, seven days at least before the date 

of the meeting. 

In the event of the annual meeting, by mistake or otherwise, not 

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being called or held as herein prescribed, the Board of Directors shall 
order a special meeting to be called and held in lieu of and for the 
purposes of the annual meeting. 

Fifteen members shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. 

Article VIII. Standing Committees. 

There shall be a Nominating Committee consisting of three mem- 
bers, and an Auditing Committee consisting of two members. The 
members of these committees shall be neither officers nor Directors. 
They shall be elected at each annual meeting of the Society, and serve 
for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. 

The duties of the Nominating Committee shall be as set forth in 
Article IX. of these by-laws. 

The duties of the Auditing Committee shall be to audit the 
accounts of the Treasurer and report thereon at each annual meeting. 

Article IX. Nominations. 

The Nominating Committee shall, by or before the fifteenth day 
of May in each year, send to the Recording Secretary a written list of 
nominations for all offices to be filled at the annual meeting, and this 
list shall be sent by the Recording Secretary with the call for the 
annual meeting to all the regular members of the Society. 

Other nominations may be made for any office at the annual 
meeting. 

Article X. Permanent Fund. 

All fees from life membership shall be kept invested by the 
Treasurer. All sums given or devised to the Society without specific 
directions as to their use shall be added to such investment : any sum 
or sums may be so added, and the whole shall be known as the Per- 
manent Fund. 

The interest of the Permanent Fund may be used for current 
expenses, or added to the principal if so voted from time to time by 
the Directors, but the principal shall be expended only upon authori- 
zation by a two-thirds vote of those present and voting at a meeting of 
the Society duly called for the purpose. 

Article XI. Amendments. 
These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of those 
present and voting at any meeting, provided the substance of the pro- 
posed amendment has been given in the call for the meeting. 



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